Coatue Administration’s Philippe Laffont trimmed his large Tesla holding within the third quarter, whereas ramping up his publicity to semiconductor shares. The so-called Tiger Cub decreased his stake in Elon Musk’s EV firm by 16% to $940 million guess on the finish of September, based on a regulatory submitting. Tesla was nonetheless Coatue’s greatest holding on the time of submitting. The inventory has shed 27% within the fourth quarter partly as a result of Musk has been promoting billions of {dollars} value of Tesla shares to fund his acquisition of Twitter. The hedge fund considerably added to its Nvidia holding, making it the fifth-largest guess on the finish of the third quarter, the submitting confirmed. After a tough first half of the yr, the chipmaker roared again within the fourth quarter with shares rising 34%. Nvidia is ready to report third-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Coatue additionally constructed new stakes in a slew of different semiconductor names, together with AMD , Utilized Supplies , ASML Holding , Lam Analysis and NXP Semiconductors . The semiconductor business has taken a success this yr amid heightened tensions between U.S. and China. Earlier this yr, Washington curbed China’s entry to American know-how, which added uncertainty to the business already grappling with the boom-and-bust of semiconductor demand. The iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) is down greater than 30% this yr. Coatue saved its large Moderna holding unchanged within the third quarter. The pharmaceutical firm — a pandemic winner for its improvement of a Covid vaccine — staged an enormous comeback within the present quarter, up 51% thus far, after being below strain all yr. The hedge fund’s different high holdings included Rivian , Uber, PayPal , Amazon and Disney on the finish of the third quarter.